Zimmermann’s paper presentation at the AASLE conference was on “Beyond the Average: Ethnic Capital Heterogeneity and Intergenerational Transmission of Education”. He showed that low educated new ethnic German migrant parents learn from better educated migrants of their own ethnicity with the consequence of a higher educational outcome of their children. This justifies random local assignment of migrants upon immigration.

At the conference, GLO President Zimmermann met a larger number of GLO Fellows, with whom he discussed issues of future research and the development of the GLO organization.